One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man.
One always believes one’s own town to be more stupid than any other.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
Net the large fish, and you’re sure to have the small fry.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
